[cripplecreek]

I would consider anything in the 70s cool for July second in my part of the country.

[dirtboy]

So despite 70 years of automobiles and those dreaded SUVs spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we still cannot top temps from the 1930s.

[MNJohnnie]

Note to idiot simplistic minds in the Junk Media Please explain to us how July had anything to do with ayour claim of a "Global Warming" of a half degree increase in the Global Mean Tempeture? BTW Global Warming Clowns, why then is the HOTTEST record from the 1930s?????? Liars and their junk science. I still say global warming is cause by methane gas leaking from uranus.

[Fledermaus]

Wow - 105 years of records so they must be right!

I'd rather be stupid than gullible.

I got in a "debate" with a global warming koolaid drinker the other day and they told be "the whole planet is baking right now". When I tried to explain that it was winter in the southern hemisphere I got yelled at and called a moron.

These are the stupid idiots that make up the global warming movement. And that's what it is - a movement, not science. I didn't bother to explain to her that when it's summer in the northern hemisphere the Earth is farther away from the Sun in its orbit. Her brain would probably have exploded.

[non-anonymous]

Overall, the first seven months of 2006 were the warmest January-July of any year in the United States on record.

Gee, that's not contrived at all.

[hophead]

Thats right on! I just can't believe how much hotter it is this month than just 5 months ago. There has to be something to this theory.

[TheBattman]

Just another case of "where do the numbers come from"... the temperatures for July here in Central Arkansas have actually been a degree or two cooler overall than the average. Of course, when you are talking about the high 90s +, folks don't differentiate too much. But we have had several hotter July temps just in the last decade here.

But still - where do these numbers come from? Are they a national average, the average in one specific location, or what?

I suspect a case of selective statistics use, because using statistics from our single location, we might say that the last two years have shown a trend for "global cooling"....

[An American In Dairyland]

Oh my God! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

[martin_fierro]

[CPOSharky]

I'm waiting for someone to 'explain' how global warming caused cooler sea tempertatures this year.

Paging algore.

[Godzilla]

Meanwhile, South Africa had a large snowstorm that is rare by that country's standards.

[DTogo]

Great! Let's build the Cape Wind project NOW!!

The Limousine Liberals of Nantucket will love it!!

[edzo4]

when they say warmest ever do they mean?

a, since the earth's crust first cooled

b, since they invented the thermometer
or
c, since they started keeping weather records

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

No! No! No! Those old 1930's thermometers were no good! They read too high!

[c-five]

That settles it for me, if 70 years of 'global warming' hasn't been able to set a new record, we don't have much to worry about.

[Alas Babylon!]

I have it on strong authority (from channeling spirits and staring at crystals), that July, 1401, was the hottest in the Unted states for this millineum at 82.7 degrees, and the hottest ever July in history of the Earth was July, 117,253,259 BC, during the mid-Cretaceous. That month it was 97.2 fahrenheit, on average.

Anyone, prove I'm wrong! It cannot be done.

[Mamzelle]

But it snowed in Johannesburg on this date for the first time in a decade...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

July 1936 still holds the record at 77.5

Must have been all those SUV's and Jumbo Jets back then.

[GOP_1900AD]

Notice the backpeddling. A few weeks ago it was "hottest July ever" and now it's been scaled back to "since 1950."

[PeteB570]

But the low hurricane count balances it all out.